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Stefanie Klein-Jahns
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Dr. Stefanie Klein-Jahns

Rechtsanwältin

Languages
  • German
  • English
  • French
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Employment lawyer Stefanie Klein-Jahns is an expert for employment contracts and has a special focus on knowledge management: She manages the collection and exchange of information in numerous employment law projects and contributes to regularly published journals on employment law.

Stefanie joined CMS in 2002 and has been a counsel since 2012. Previously, she had been with The Leibnitz Association, a network of research institutions, and the employment law department of the Federal Association of German Employer Associations. Stefanie gained client-side experience on a secondment with Audi AG in Ingolstadt.

Publications

  • "Böswilliges Unterlassen anderweitigen Erwerbs während der Kündigungsfrist", Die Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht im Unternehmen (ZAU) 2025, Heft 5, S. 303 ff., together with Franziska Reiß
  • "Sind nachhaltige Dienstreisen auf Grundlage des Arbeitszeitgesetzes überhaupt möglich?", Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht in Unternehmen (ZAU) 2024, S. 352 ff., together with Alexander Bissels
  • Arbeitsrechtliche Fragestellungen - Dienstwagen, Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht (AuA) 2018, 576 , gemeinsam mit Lisa Gerdel

Education

  • 1996: Second state examination in law
  • PhD; thesis on procedural law
  • While working on her thesis: research assistant for Großer Klausurenkurs, a specific course preparing law students in Germany for their exams
  • 1992: First state examination in law
  • Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Manfred Lieb (employment, business and commercial law), University of Cologne
  • Law studies at the University of Cologne
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